Doc Jones’ Chuckwagon Cookoff is scheduled at 4 p.m. Saturday at 28100 County Road 809 (Gun Club Road) in La Junta is the highlight of a Western weekend.

Cost of the supper is $15 and tickets may be bought by calling 719-469-3030 or 719-384-7551. Tickets also can be purchased at the gate.

Activities on Friday begin with the arrival of the chuck wagons, which are true replicas of those that fed the cowboys as they drove herds of cattle from ranches to railheads.

Bluegrass musicians also will entertain crowds.

The weekend concludes with a Trail Ride to the Dinosaur Tracks in Picketwire Canyon south of La Junta on Sunday morning, meeting at the Bunkhouse is scheduled at 9 a.m. and beginning at the trail head near Vogel Canyon.